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Bnei Brak Education System Not Striking
by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Bnei Brak Education System did not take part in the national strike that began on Sunday and schools, kindergartens and nursery schools were in session as usual.

R' Avrohom Tanenbaum, the city's secretary and spokesman, said the decision to keep the education system in operation was reached during a meeting between Mayor Rabbi Yissochor Frankentahl and Rabbi Yonoson Safra, director of the city's Department of Education, upholding the longstanding policy of not participating in teachers' strikes. Tanenbaum also said the City is not involved in the dispute, which is clearly being waged in all earnestness. On one hand the state's difficult economic condition requires deep funding cuts, but on the other hand local authorities are already in a dire economic situation due to decreased income.

In Bnei Brak teachers' strikes have not been honored over the years to prevent bitul Torah and to avoid placing a burden on the city's parents, the majority of whom have large families.

In the past, while institutions in the chareidi sector did not strike, the city's non-religious schools did strike based on the initiative of teachers' associations. But since this week's strike was organized by the local authorities the City of Bnei Brak cannot make policy distinctions between the chareidi sector and the other sectors, therefore all schools will remain open.

 

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